Tonight, Belize has joined the rest of the world: the Ministry of Health has confirmed the presence of COVID-19. Up until last night, Belize had been among the last five counties in the world which had not seen a positive test. Well, last night, a positive was confirmed - and the Prime Minister held a special press conference this morning to make the announcement: | 7 News Belize

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Tonight, only 11 Belizeans have active COVID 19 infections. And finally, the government is going to start relaxing some of the lockdown restrictions. More on that in a minute, but first to the latest results released after 8:00 last night. It shows three more recovered patients - bringing the Toal number to 5, and no one in the hospital. In an address this afternoon, the Prime Minister outlined the encouraging news from the testing results so far: | 7 News Belize